Defending human rights is a dangerous job in several parts of the world. Many of those who do, face risks and threats daily. When a threatening situation escalates, Civil Rights Defenders’ Emergency F...
Women human rights defender and citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for exposing problems in the health care sector in occupied Crimea. Human rights are...
2022 was a tough year when it comes to the human rights situation. Despite this, human rights defenders continue to fight for human rights and democracy around the world. Thanks to these brave people,...
The Ninth Annual Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe, hosted by Civil Rights Defenders and the AIRE Centre, took place in Tirana, Albania during November 25 – 26, 2022. This year the foru...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns today’s decision by the Bishkek City Court that ordered to deport Bolot Temirov, an investigative journalist, from the country. In a video shared by Kloop News, Temirov...
Russia’s president Putin recently announced a “partial mobilisation”, ordering to send at least 300,000 men to the war in Ukraine. This has led to a new wave of protests across the country, with over ...
Today, one of the world’s largest human rights conferences – Defenders’ Days – starts in Stockholm. Here, among others, relatives of people kidnapped by ISIS in Syria, environmentalists fr...
On 6 September, Minsk City Court will pronounce the verdict in the politically motivated and harrowing case of human rights defenders Maria (Marfa) Rabkova and Andrey Chapiuk, in a climate of sweeping...
While waging war against Ukraine, the Russian authorities have drastically increased the pressure against its own citizens as well. Anyone who protests against the war risks being detained by the auth...
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